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CSS Essentials

If you're interested in a career in web design, this course will help you learn how to work with the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) language. This common language gives you more control over how your web pages look and appear.

Is this for you?

The CSS Essentials course is suitable for beginners and is aimed at those wanting to train to become a Web Designer or Web Developer.

Award and Associated Qualifications

Awarded 30 CPD points upon successful completion

Start Date

Flexible

Study Type

In centre, online, or a combination

Training Type

course

Duration

Around 30 hours

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About this course

This online course is designed to give you the practical skills and know-how required to be able to use CSS3 to design and create eye-catching webpages.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a vital tool for anyone building a website. It cuts time and effort repeating formatting across different webpages as it allows you to set up how you want your page to appear, whether on paper, screen or other media, and then you can quickly and easily replicate this across other pages in the site.

This course has been designed to be flexible, interactive and engaging. There are educational games and quizzes throughout the course, you’ll watch presentations and demonstrations led by industry experts who are there to help you gain a full understanding of the subject matter. When it comes to preparing to take the certification exam, you’ll be able to sit practice exams to ensure you’re fully confident ahead of the exam.

As with all our training you will have full control over the pace of your training as you can train at times and a pace that suits you. If you feel like you need to recap a session, you can simply rewind and replay any section you need.

There are a total of 7 modules in this course.

Module 1 – Introduction to CSS3

Module 2 – Understanding the CSS box model

Module 3 – Working with page layouts

Module 4 – Using colours and backgrounds

Module 5 – Web typography

Module 6 – Links, lists and tables

Module 7 – Dynamic CSS3 properties

Aims and Objectives

This course is designed to give you an introduction to CSS3 so that you are able to set the style and look of a web page and roll this out to other pages on the same site without having to repeat formatting actions separately.

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites required for this course.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: -

Self-Funded:

Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;

You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

Funding & Grants:

There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

After study of this course you can progress towards a rewarding web developer career. From here you can work towards a Senior Web Developer position or even Creative Director!